Ceci Connolly, president and CEO of the Alliance for Community Health Plans, told Fierce Healthcare in an email that given some alarming adverse events and the steep price tag, ACHP and our member companies are focused on ensuring prescribing decisions are based on science as well as on providing patients with the best care possible. David Allen, a spokesperson for AHIP, echoed Connolly in an email to Fierce Healthcare, saying that insurers routinely review treatments for obesity, including lifestyle changes and nutrition counseling
Wegovy comes in additional higher dosage strengths of 1.7 mg, 2.4 mg, and 7.2 mg, which take time to ramp up to
The more weight you lose, the harder the rubber band pulls you back towards your set point, requiring greater effort to maintain a calorie deficit
The websites selling this product promise fast results with no side effects or discomfort
Compounding pharmacies
If they overlap in your system, you get additive stimulation of those receptors, and the result is not better efficacy
